26Oyster Mushroom
The commonly-eaten Oyster Mushroom (pleurotus ostreatus) is one of the few carnivorous mushrooms that feeds itself by paralyzing nematodes with a toxin and ingesting them in the form of a protein-rich slurry.
27. Fettuccine Alfredo was invented by Chef Alfredo Di Lelio for his pregnant wife who had morning sickness. The dish made its way to the U.S. after silent-era film stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford ate at the chef's restaurant during their honeymoon in Rome and asked for the recipe.
28. The Manchu-Han Banquet was one of the grandest meals ever documented in Chinese culinary history and consisted of (at least) 108 dishes served in six meals over the course of three days. It is said that there were “Thirty-Two Delicacies,” referring to the more exotic ingredients used for the banquet. The “Eight Mountain Delicacies” included such dishes as camel’s hump, bear’s paws, monkey’s brains, ape’s lips, leopard fetuses, rhinoceros tails, and deer tendons.
29. The original recipe for macarons calls for ambergris, which is whale vomit that comes from the stomachs of sperm whales.
30. Tavuk Göğsü is a Turkish dessert pudding made with shredded white chicken breast. The meat is mixed with milk, sugar, cracked rice, and/or other thickeners, and often some sort of flavoring such as cinnamon.
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31Sakotis
Sakotis is a Lithuanian tree-shaped cake made by continuously pouring layers of batter onto a rotating cylinder. A 2 kg cake uses 30 eggs, but the largest one ever made was 2 meters tall and used 1200 eggs.
32. A team of international scholars have been working to recreate recipes from 4000 years ago from tablets. One Mesopotamian dish resembles a chicken pot pie, with layers of dough and chunks of bird smothered by a sort of Babylonian béchamel sauce.
33. An affogato (Italian for "drowned") is an Italian coffee-based dessert. Restaurants and cafes in Italy categorize the affogato as a dessert, while some restaurants and cafes outside Italy categories it as a beverage. It is made with a scoop of semisoft cheese-flavored or vanilla gelato or ice cream topped or “drowned” with a shot of hot espresso.
34. On the 3rd Sunday of Lent, Luxembourg celebrates Pretzel Sunday with a procession of pastry cooks, a band, and an elected “Pretzel Queen”, handing out free pretzels to everyone. Men gift a pretzel to the woman they love on that day, which back in the day used to seal marriages.
35. Edible Bird’s Nests are among the most expensive animal products consumed by humans, with some nests going for more than $3,000 per pound. These nests are created by Indian swiftlets, and other swiftlets using solidified saliva, which are harvested for human consumption.
